FACEBOOK: "Social networking allows us to be passive-aggressive online"

In the middle of last week, I got into a dispute with one of my friends. When I checked Facebook later, I noticed she had un-friended me. All I could do was laugh. Look at us. Look what an oxymoron "social" media is. It's breaking us apart. Social networking allows us to be passive-aggressive online and enables us to façade our inabilities to deal with real face-to-face interactions.

SHOOT: I find people who criticise Facebook a bit naive. As far as I'm concerned it is like someone criticising money or pollution or the weather. It's part of our current reality, millions use it, and it's not going to perfectly fit each person's idea of what suits their hyperindividual preferences. It gives me the impression of a society so spoilt for choice it can never be happy, because it wants more more more and is happy with less and less.

clipped from media.www.dailyorange.com If you see an application link that tells you to "become a fan" of Fan Check, do not click it. If you have the application installed, uninstall it and slap yourself on the wrist for being so desperate as to know who likes you the most. Many other Web sites offer the ability to comment on blogs or post online orders to a user's Facebook. Frankly, I neither want to let everyone know what movie I'm watching, nor do I particularly care what movies my friends are watching. If it's possible to have too much information in one place, Facebook has achieved it. clipped from media.www.dailyorange.com My problem really is not what I post, but having to look at what my friends post. While you can "hide" someone's information from your news feed, there will always be another person who discovered another quiz with results they cannot wait to share. I'm merely continuing to visit the site out of addictive habit, not curiosity.